I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Rockstar Games in Jun 2020
Interview
I received a referral from a Rockstar Games employee for the Front End Developer position. The recruiter was very friendly and the process was pretty standard.
After the initial phone screen, I had to take a timed Codility assessment that included multiple choice or true/false questions about JavaScript/HTML/CSS and a React sortable table with missing features. The assessment was on the easier end of the spectrum, but the IDE would error out constantly mid-typing on the JSX portion (debounce, anyone?).
After passing the initial assessment, I spoke with one senior member of the team located in the UK. It was a very basic conversation about experience and the team. I passed this portion as well.
Finally, I had 2 back-to-back interviews with 2-3 members of the team (devs and PMs). These conversation were also not very technical aside from questions about what I predicted would become big in web development in the near future or describing the difference between cookies, session storage, and local storage.
After a long process I received an email the next day that read like a template email in response to an initial application or first phone screen:
"Thank you for your interest in the Front End Developer position at Rockstar Games and for taking the time to attend an interview. Unfortunately, I write to advise that we will not be proceeding further with your application."
I responded to the email thanking the team for their consideration and asked for feedback so that I could improve, but never received a reply.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Can you describe the difference between cookies, session storage, and local storage?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Rockstar Games
Interview
The interview is more on the practical side. The more knowledgeable you are about your work the better you will do, no "Cracking the Coding Interview" study needed.
Process:
- Standard introductory call with recruiter.
- Codility assessment - multiple choice and easy level LeetCode problems
- Hour long technical interview. Surface level basic HTML/CSS/JS and framework specific questions.
- Final 3 hour long interview with multiple groups. Mix of behavioral and technical. Lots of domain specific questions, in my case the ins and outs of JavaScript, to gauge depth of knowledge.
Didn't get an offer in the end, but still one of the best interviews I have gone through.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What's the difference between a Callback and a Promise?